auhckw wrote:For years I have been eating mooncake without tea. This is the first time and I am quite impressed that it blends so well.

Mooncake is very sweet and it makes puerh goes even smoother in the throat. Getting HIGH on sugar and a good aged ripe puerh

I'm glad that you enjoy mooncake with tea, there's good reason for this age old custom of eating mooncake with tea.

I only have 1/4 mooncake left and I saved it for tonight ..., well have to wait till next year.

One interesting story (or tale from a distance past) about mooncakes is that secret messages were allegedly hidden inside so when people gave each other mooncakes (this was before the days of e-mail or SMS on mobile), they were passing secret messages and organized a revolution against the Mongol rule ...

auhckw wrote:For years I have been eating mooncake without tea. This is the first time and I am quite impressed that it blends so well.

Mooncake is very sweet and it makes puerh goes even smoother in the throat. Getting HIGH on sugar and a good aged ripe puerh

I'm glad that you enjoy mooncake with tea, there's good reason for this age old custom of eating mooncake with tea.

I only have 1/4 mooncake left and I saved it for tonight ..., well have to wait till next year.

One interesting story (or tale from a distance past) about mooncakes is that secret messages were allegedly hidden inside so when people gave each other mooncakes (this was before the days of e-mail or SMS on mobile), they were passing secret messages and organized a revolution against the Mongol rule ...

Children are told the story of the moon fairy living in a crystal palace, who comes out to dance on the moon's shadowed surface. The legend surrounding the "lady living in the moon" dates back to ancient times, to a day when ten suns appeared at once in the sky. The Emperor ordered a famous archer to shoot down the nine extra suns. Once the task was accomplished, Goddess of Western Heaven rewarded the archer with a pill that would make him immortal. However, his wife found the pill, took it, and was banished to the moon as a result. Legend says that her beauty is greatest on the day of the Moon festival.

To me mooncake festival reminds me of my childhood days where we put up paper lantern with candles in it. But then being naughty, I usually will burn all those lantern at the end and also played with candle/fire. Even barbecued beetles.

To me moon festival is like a Chinese Thanksgiving. Every culture has something like this to celebrate the harvest season. Something else of this kind that I can think of is the October Festival of German. This afternoon we passed by a Porto Rico farm in our neighborhood and they told us they will hold a harvest festival this weekend. There will be thousands of people there and 12 pigs will be roasted to feed them, I mean us. After seeing the pork roasting set up, I am so going. It's almost as good as mooncakes

gingkoseto wrote:To me moon festival is like a Chinese Thanksgiving. Every culture has something like this to celebrate the harvest season. Something else of this kind that I can think of is the October Festival of German. This afternoon we passed by a Porto Rico farm in our neighborhood and they told us they will hold a harvest festival this weekend. There will be thousands of people there and 12 pigs will be roasted to feed them, I mean us. After seeing the pork roasting set up, I am so going. It's almost as good as mooncakes

... This wouldn't happen to be in WESTERN MA would it? There's a good chance it could be in my neighborhood, lol.

gingkoseto wrote:To me moon festival is like a Chinese Thanksgiving. Every culture has something like this to celebrate the harvest season. Something else of this kind that I can think of is the October Festival of German. This afternoon we passed by a Porto Rico farm in our neighborhood and they told us they will hold a harvest festival this weekend. There will be thousands of people there and 12 pigs will be roasted to feed them, I mean us. After seeing the pork roasting set up, I am so going. It's almost as good as mooncakes

... This wouldn't happen to be in WESTERN MA would it? There's a good chance it could be in my neighborhood, lol.

Really! Maybe we are hometown fellows! I will PM the event info. The festival is on Saturday, held by Nuestras Raices Farm of Holyoke, a nationally renowned organic city farm built up entirely by local Latino community.

gingkoseto wrote:To me moon festival is like a Chinese Thanksgiving. Every culture has something like this to celebrate the harvest season. Something else of this kind that I can think of is the October Festival of German. This afternoon we passed by a Porto Rico farm in our neighborhood and they told us they will hold a harvest festival this weekend. There will be thousands of people there and 12 pigs will be roasted to feed them, I mean us. After seeing the pork roasting set up, I am so going. It's almost as good as mooncakes

... This wouldn't happen to be in WESTERN MA would it? There's a good chance it could be in my neighborhood, lol.

Really! Maybe we are hometown fellows! I will PM the event info. The festival is on Saturday, held by Nuestras Raices Farm of Holyoke, a nationally renowned organic city farm built up entirely by local Latino community.

Yeah... that's pretty much in my backyard, seriously, I can see the farm from my window!